Feb. 21, 2023: Happy Pączki Day!
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4 min readFeb 22
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First, Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday).
Tomorrow Lent begins — which means that today people around the world are celebrating Fat Tuesday (that’s Mardi Gras in French).
The word Lent comes from the Old English lencten meaning “springtime.” Around the fourth century, Christians began to mark a season of Lent by depriving themselves of something (a specific food or…
